You know more about this than I do -- how can you tell that Force Quit was ineffective?

Anytime I force-quit Aperture I immediately reboot and then repair the Library. I can't remember a case where Aperture repeatedly hung after a Library repair. Have you looked for Images with corrupted Originals? Have you noticed what Aperture was reporting in the Activity window prior to hanging? Do you have at least 10% free space on both your system drive and any drive hosting your Aperture Library? Have you run a memory test?

I appreciate the fish. What I meant was, I wouild Force quit through the 'Force Quit' window, the process itslef would disappear from that window but he app would continue to hang - it wouldn't shut down.

I did repair / rebuild the library after this fiorst happened, that's why I'm concerned.

How does one 'look for images with corrupted originals ?"

Tony, the onlt thing I didn't do on Apples list was the.plsts, but I'll keep that in mind.

"Tony, the onlt thing I didn't do on Apples list was the.plsts, but I'll keep that in mind."

The only other thing I diodn't do from the list was obviously reinstall a clean Aperture. Last resort.

Next step - .plists

Then I will try to the guest theory. I need to main tain my workflow, so creating anoother library and importing pics is a big deal. I also am not convinced were comparing apples to apples but I will try it anyway.

Then I will try to the guest theory. I need to maintain my workflow, so creating another library and importing pics is a big deal.

JJ, we do not need a big library here, just launch Aperture with the ⌥-key held down, select "other/new" to create a new library; name it "testlibrary" and duplicate and import a few images you have already in your home folder. You do not need to take new pictures to test this - any copies of pictures you already have will do. Then try adjusting these images in a new library. Do with them what you usually do to make Aperture freeze.

Use "File > Switch to Library" to switch back to your regular library.

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